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More St. Clair County Enumeration Districts (ED) and transcriptions 1930 U.S. census

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See Enumerator's Instructions followed for this census and those from 1850–1990 .
For answers to almost any 1930 census question you can think of, see these National Archives Census Pages.

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Deciphering the ED and sheet numbers
ED stands for Enumeration District. The numbers below represent the County (St. Clair = 82), the ED number, and then the sheet number. All of these numbers can be found in the upper right hand corner of each census sheet. Technically, a census 'page' equals two sheets, numbered sequentially: 1A, 1B, 2A, 2B, and so on. If sheets are out-of-sequence on the microfilm, we will note it within the transcription. Be aware that the machine-stamped number located in the upper right-hand corner on every-other census sheet was not used for this transcription.

Those who use Ancestry.com to locate a page should be aware that the "sheet number" below is not the same as the "page" on the Ancestry site. Generally, you must double the sheet number shown here and it will get you within one online image.

Unless otherwise stated, this transcription is in the same order found on the film. Each sheet contains 50 lines but not all lines are used. For example, sheet 1A has lines numbered 1 through 50; sheet 1B has lines numbered 51 through 100. Blank lines are noted below.

Surnames (family names) are in CAPS. Information added by the transcriber is in [square brackets]. The [?] replaces one or more illegible letters or numbers.

NOTES:
This enumerator consistently spelled Dorothy as Dorthy, Lawrence as Lawerence, and Doris and Dorris.

Re: Age of children under age five. This enumerator usually entered, and then crossed out, the number of months
old for children under age 5. For children under age 1 he re-wrote the age as 0. For this transcription, all of
the information in the age column is shown below–those numbers that were crossed out are noted as such.

The instructions each enumerator received were as follows: “Ages of children.-Take particular pains to get the exact ages
of children. In the case of a child less than 5 years old, the age should be given in completed months,
expressed as twelfths of a year. Thus the age of a child 3 months old should be entered as 3/12, a child 7
months old as 7/12, a child 1 year and 3 months old as 1 3/12, a child exactly 3 years old as 3 0/12, a child 3
years and 1 month old as 3 1/12, etc. [If] a child is not yet a month old, enter the age as 0/12, but note again
that this question should be answered with reference to April 1. For instance, a child who is just a year old on
the 5th of April 1930, should nevertheless be returned as 11/12, because that is its age in completed months on
April 1.” Source:
Integrated Public Use Microdata Series